Quotes by Greed Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. J. K. Rowling thieves treasure greed If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Yves Cousteau greed humanity way We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture Jacque Fresco prejudice greed culture A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice. Jake Roberts wallowing greed victim But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed. Jakob Dylan opening mazes greed Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened. Jamais Cascio resilient greed may Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. James Buchan expansion greed character Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. James Chiles egypt greed pyramids There is a very fine line between love and nausea. James Earl Jones nausea greed lines The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. James A. Baldwin greed writing needs This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening. James M. Barrie greed tea believe It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time. James Surowiecki financial greed fear Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. Frederick Lenz atlantis ancient greed Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more. James Thurber greed want men Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world. Jan Morris greed cities doubt As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. Frederick Lenz growing-up greed hate Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. Janwillem van de Wetering demon greed mouths I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed. Jason Newsted interaction-with-others greed play There is a very fine line between listening and stalking. Jay Baer nausea greed listening Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. Jasper Fforde cash greed done «910111213141516171819»
